Solis Ensemble

Solis Ensemble is committed to using music as a powerful force for connection. Bringing together some of the UK’s leading musicians and artists we invite audiences into the heart of our performances, sharing in a creative dialogue.

2025 sees the ensemble commissioning Luke Styles (composer) and Jacob Sam-la Rose (poet) in a new work of music and words, bringing contemporary poetic text and performance together with contemporary classical composition. Treating the text as a compositional element or the poetic voice as a musical collaborator; exploring relationships between sound, syntax and sense-making; mining for a commonly held emotive impulse, a fundamental effort to communicate that rings true on a human scale.

The completed 15 minute work will be performed by string trio and performance poet. The project explores the ways in which poetry and classical music can speak to each other to create something new. The new work has been booked for the 2025 Sound Festival (Aberdeen/Scotland).

During Autumn 2025/Spring 2026 the Ensemble will programme the new commission alongside string trios by Beethoven, Sibelius, Kodaly and Schubert.